Federal officers, a regimental band with instruments, and several ladies pose in front of the two-story Aldehoff School. People can be seen in the windows of the building, and a tent appears in the right foreground of the dual-image stereograph...

L.V.F. is relieved that her husbands birthday means he is now too old to be drafted into military service. She compares the Federal troops to an Egyptian plague from the Bible because of their rough foraging for provisions. Cooper [one of the...

Describes coldest day of the season 18 degrees outside and snow. The southern army is at Murfreesboro & Shelbyville. The Yankees are at Nashville. Bouse, who had been barefoot all of the fall, got his shoes last night. L. V. F. is as good as...

Describes coldest day of the season 18 degrees outside and snow. The southern army is at Murfreesboro & Shelbyville. The Yankees are at Nashville. Bouse, who had been barefoot all of the fall, got his shoes last night. L. V. F. is as good as...

James Robards Taylor recorded in a family business ledger "the property that was taking from me for the use of the Federal Army." He listed 12 head of horses and 2 mules for $2,000, 1 large "yoak" of ox $100, 1 fine Durham cow $50, 2 other cattle...

Pictured is a single-room log pen structure with a metal roof located near Ozone, Tennessee. Its original function could have been that of a corncrib or a smokehouse. A number of tools, tubs, barrels, and farm implements positioned in and around...

Left: George W. Puryear. Middle top: Wine barrels. Middle middle: six members of the Army Air Service. George W. Puryear is on the right and Irby R. Curry is on the left. Middle bottom: George W. Puryear shooting dice with his squadron mates. It is...

Engraving of soldiers, equipment, and supplies being off-loaded from steamboats onto shore as seen from the deck of one of the ships. Columns of soldiers and horses, barrels, and wagons can be seen on the shore. Engravings of Major-General James...

A truck that has knocked over several earth-filled 55-gallon drums on which the unit designation has been painted. The truck was unable to stop in heavy rain and slid into the barrels. The barrels and sandbags were set up to defend the entrance to...

U.S. Quartermaster warehouse in Nashville. Barrels lie near the left of the building, and a guard with a bayonet fixed on his rifle stands in the foreground. The Capitol and several downtown buildings can be seen in the background.

Fifty-five gallon metal drums are painted with the unit designation "61st MP Det. Security" representing the 61st Military Police Detachment attached to the signal station at Vung Chua. The unit was originally designated the 194th MP company....

Town along the river is featured with two African-American workers rolling barrels along a loading ramp. William A. Lueders General Merchandise Store, storage barn, and other buildings appear in the background. The William A. Lueders General...